Cameron Crowe Quotes
We used music in the film to create an environment. It made it feel like we were telling our story with a little extra -- a little extra soul.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make them individual but also identifiable.
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I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
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When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
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We used music in the film to create an environment. It made it feel like we were telling our story with a little extra -- a little extra soul.
